A free public reception for the artists will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23, two days before the exhibition closes in Tyler Art Gallery's temporary home on the second floor of Penfield Library.

Michael Flanagan, director of Tyler Art Gallery, expects 15 to 20 art department faculty members to take part. Additional media represented in the display may include book art, digital illustration, drawing, graphic design and painting.

One of the exhibitors, Rebecca Mushtare, teaches web design and multimedia. Yet for this show, she will install, in a grid of tall columns and wide rows, dozens of heat-warped discs bearing visual or textual images cut from plastic shopping bags. The installation is titled "Plastic Specimens."

"Plastic bags are designed objects and artifacts of commodification that are often discarded, ignored and treated as objects of little or no cultural value," Mushtare said in an artist's statement. "Each plastic specimen contains a composite of elements like color, typography, texts and images from discarded plastic bags, for closer examination."

Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays. Parking on the SUNY Oswego campus requires a permit; drivers without a current campus parking sticker can visit oswego.edu/administration/parking for information on obtaining a day-use permit.